Curiosity and enlightenment

collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

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Curiosity and enlightenment
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Curiosity and enlightenment

collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

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English
Pages
386

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Table of Contents

The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors
The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization
Collecting art
Museums and the natural world
Death, anatomy and the museum
Antiquity in transition
Museums of science and technology
The museum comes of age.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index.

Published in
New Haven [Conn.], London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
707.5
Library of Congress
N5200 .M32 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 386 p. :
Number of pages
386

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21039636M
ISBN 10
0300124937
ISBN 13
9780300124934
LCCN
2007037995
LibraryThing
5086125
Goodreads
2492999

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OL4208376W

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